Interview · North Dakota · Oliver Gourd
Themes: Language & revitalization, Identity & belonging, Education & learning, Children & young people
New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.
Learn About questions
1. How does Oliver Gourd describe the order in which he learned Dakota and English?
2. What change does he observe in the first language of younger people?
3. Why does he emphasize returning to language teaching repeatedly?
Learn From questions
1. What draws my attention away from learning I say I value?
2. How could I make repeated practice a supportive experience rather than a source of frustration?
3. What might I learn by listening to someone whose first language differs from mine?
Transcripts
Introduction with Oliver Gourd
Watch this interview on YouTubeHow their week ahead of scar and what you happy Dakota how much many work ha he said did what T that’s all I want to say and then my name is Oliver gourd senior I’m here from spirit lake I’m 73 years old right now I’m a full-blooded Kota fluent speaker when all my life I guess English will buy a second language I think that’s really before and I think that nowadays are the young people English is their first language so it’s kind of reversed now you have to teach them our ancient language so that’s a struggle there because the media the you know all this internet and iPhones and let’s go on and on that’s got your attention where we try to talk a little bit teach them a little bit Dakota or who we are is it’s a kind of you know not too much and then they forget right away you know so we gotta keep telling them over and over
Affiliation sources
NDNAEU document credits: Oliver Gourd — Spirit Lake (Dakota).
Video title and URL from the supplied Teachings of Our Elders transcript document.
Source materials
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